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THE annual council meeting of the Association of Scientific Workers was held in London on November 25. In the report submitted by the Executive Committee, the activities of the Association during the past year were reviewed. These included general activities before the War, such as the Legal Committee and the Scientific Films Committee, and special activities since war broke out, which included the collection of information on the effect of the War on science and scientific workers. The Executive Committee had drawn up a tentative scheme for the setting up of a State Department for the Co-ordination of Science and had submitted this scheme to a number of scientific bodies for their comment; these bodies had in general replied that they could not work in this way to improve the status of science. A net increase in membership of 25 per cent during the last year was also reported. The president of the Association, Prof. F. G. Donnan, in his address to the meeting, stressed the necessity of building up activities that would have an economic appeal to potential members of the Association, and suggested the possibility of establishing an unemployment benefit fund. The Association, in trying to represent men of science of all subjects in one body, has a great task before it, and in view of the existence of many sectional organizations for men of science, it must offer strong inducements to gain members.
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Association of Scientific Workers. Nature 144, 934 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144934b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/144934b0